Poverty in America Once Again Ignored in 2016 : As of September 2016 there were 1,750,000 homeless people in the United States, 40% of which are veterans. Of the women who are homeless, 40% are unaccompanied/have no partner, and 25% claim to have been sexually abused in the last year (see here for a list of additional statistics on homelessness in America). On the issue of hunger, 31 million Americans now live in hunger, or are on the edge of hunger.

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